No 3pm kick off in April!

Our home league meeting with Newcastle was scheduled for a 3pm kick off on Saturday 12th April, and this was going to be the only Saturday 3pm kick off we would have had in April, but this has now been changed to 5.15pm so it can be shown live on setanta sports.

West Ham, originally scheduled for 5th was a 3pm kick off but that was switched to the Monday due to works taking place on the train tracks in London, it was also then going to be shown live on setanta sports, but due to the FA cup semi final with West Brom, now taking place on Saturday 5th with a 12.15pm kick off this West Ham game has again been cancelled…

Newcastle, as we now know has been changed for the TV cameras - Man City the following week, 19th April has been switched from a 3pm Saturday kick off to a 4pm kick off on the Sunday, 20th, so it can be shown live on sky sports - either way I am making the long trek to this game though.

The final game of that month, Blackburn at home was meant to take place on Saturday 26th April 3pm, but has been switch to Sunday 27th also for sky sports coverage with a 1.30pm kick off time.

So there we have it, we will have a whole month of fixtures live on the box - assuming West Ham is rescheduled for some time in April - without a single 3pm Saturday afternoon kick off time, criminal isn't it…

im not not being funny FA football is played in england tho isnt it so the times should be accomodating us not a world wide audience, which seems to be the way the game is going more and more... sounds harsh but i think we have a right to be disgruntled dont we, football is meant to be a 3pm thing on a saturday, but its going more and more away from this - why not just pass a law that means 3pm games can be shown on tv, if people then want to watch them on the box instead of going they can - i know i would choose going everytime... granted some dont have a choice, but tv shouldnt be ruling the roost in my own opinion...

The price of fame. Everyone wants to see Pompey. Should we moan or accept it? When we ere in Scum's position, wrong end of Div 1, no-one knew who we were. No we are at the whim of TV Gods that dictate our lives.

true tracy c - i try to watch all our games in some form or another - but why can some other (preferably free!!!) chanel not show the games that sky/setanta do not want to show at 3pm. all those games happen so frequently, so many people want to watch them - but we cant get tickets, and they arnt being shown legaly...so some of us turn to...less than legal sites that show them. surely it would be better to show more 3pm games?

I just want our games televised, it means we are in the Premiership and people want to see us.
The price of success is that the kick off times have to change, who cares as long as we are winning, the journey from Liverpool to Pompey and back is a long and winding road, hey i sense a song coming on!!